The adolescent boys sat sober-faced, holding their three-stringed "horse fiddles”, making no eye contact with the white visitors who had just invaded their ger — the traditional Mongolian nomadic tent dwelling — which serves as their church building. We had made a...
Glimpses into the Radstock Mission Manual This series of blog posts will offer a taster of the ethos of Radstock Ministries, introducing different aspects of the Mission Manual. Member churches receive the complete Manual and it can be purchased at Round Table events or from members of the...
Read the third article in the mini-series of Enemies of Global Mission. Desiring God’s website recently posted an article by Nik Ripken called What’s Wrong with Western Missionaries. You can read it here: ...
By Brian Jose, Radstock's Executive Director Last year I had a great two-hour visit with a pastor and a missions advocate in a church, thanking them their continuing support of our work over a decade. They were excited about converting a facility they had just bought into a church and...
By Brian Jose, Radstock's Executive Director I know. I get it. We want excellence and good leadership. Heck, I’m was even talking last week to a strategic planning consultant. But I’m aware of the dangers — that I can over-manage our mission into irrelevance. Tim...
Brian Jose, Radstock's Executive Director, writes on Albania - Europe's Backdoor for Drugs, Sex Trafficking, Jihadism - and the Gospel on the Gospel Coalition's website. Read here.
We're thrilled to introduce Rudina Bakalli -- magazine editor, blogger, career consultant, CRU staff member, evangelist, wife, mother, televison contributor, dog walker, and more. Rudina and her family live in central Tirana, the capital of her native Albania. Look for her posts...
“We have captured the situation.” Franceska, the first believer in Sukth village, used this Albanian expression about the aftermath of the recent flood. The fine mud left everywhere -- in houses, ovens, the motors of washing machines and refrigerators, on clothes and bedding...
Watch this video to hear Andrea's heart for reaching the Roma people of the village of Morava in Albania. Many of the villagers can't read or write. The growth of their faith is "interrupted." or slow because of this. Can you help reach the youth and families of Morava? Will...
Police reprisals, blocked email accounts, restrictions on churches, huge “closed to foreigners” regions. That was the Myanmar (aka Burma) I visited five years ago. The church was working hard, but the government was forcing them to drag a ball and chain around. I met one Radstock...